Cameron's 'emergency brake' EU deal might not even be legal

David Cameron has just managed to convince the rest of the EU's
leaders to agree to give Britain an "emergency brake" on paying
some benefits to new migrants, but it turns out the
deal might not be legal.
The Telegraph is reporting that legal experts say that the
deal would probably be ruled illegal if someone challenged it in
the European Court of Justice.

Cameron had to work really hard to get the rest of the EU
to
agree to the emergency brake, and he is going to be
using the fact that he got that agreement to argue for Britain to
stay in the EU. If it starts to look
like the European Court of Justice
would say it isn't legal to restrict EU migrants' access to
in-work benefits, if would severely weaken Cameron's argument for
remaining in the EU.

Writing on his blog EULawAnalysis, Steve Peers, a
professor in EU law at the University of Essex, claims that while
the European Union Court of Justice might
accept that the emergency brake does not violate current EU
treaties, "as EU law currently stands, that is probably a long
shot."

However, not everyone agrees. President of the European
Commission Jean-Claude Juncker who helped Cameron secure the
deal said that he believes the emergency brake is legal, because
"it respects basic principles of Treaties."